The last rains falling on the Konya Plain, known as Turkey’s largest agricultural basin, has made the farmers happy and increased the expectation of high yields. Selcuk University Faculty of Agriculture Lecturer Prof. Dr. Süleyman Soylu stated: “that the development of plants in the plain has reached the expected levels with the rains, and that the grain yield will be the same as in the previous periods if the rains continue.”
In Konya, 67 percent of its surface area is used as agricultural land, production is carried out on a plantation area of 2 million 200 thousand hectares. Rainfall in the plain plays a major role in increasing the yield and quality of grain products. About 10 percent of Turkey’s total agricultural production comes from Konya. Selcuk University Faculty of Agriculture Lecturer Prof. Dr. Süleyman Soylu said that “With the increase in rainfall, there will be an increase in production in the barren areas. Especially in the winter months, there was a great drought not only in the Konya Plain, but throughout the country.
The rainy period in Konya Plain started in February, followed by very nice rains in March. In the first half of April, we received significant rains. Of course, this situation made a lot of relief in the agricultural field. Meteorologically, the dams, Beyşehir Lake and Seydişehir Suğla Storage area did not reach the desired level in terms of occupancy, but our request is that the plant should get rain at the desired time, and we received the rains in the periods they needed, especially in the barley and wheat fields planted in autumn. Plant growth on the plain is quite good at the moment.
